CVE-2017-4898

mediumpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.004 · 33 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.39% (33rd) EPSS

CVSS 6.9 · medium

Is it mine?

13 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x before 12.5.3 contains a DLL loading vulnerability that occurs due to the "vmware-vmx" process loading DLLs from a path defined in the local environment-variable. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow normal users to escalate privileges to System in the host machine where VMware Workstation is installed.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–8.8

v2.06.9mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 10

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2 · impact 6

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-427USLLM-inferred

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

VMware Workstation Pro/Player≤ 12.x prior to version 12.5.3enisa_euvdEU
vmware workstation player= 12.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation player= 12.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation player= 12.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation player= 12.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation player= 12.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation player= 12.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation pro= 12.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation pro= 12.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation pro= 12.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation pro= 12.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation pro= 12.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation pro= 12.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-06-07modified 2026-06-17

references (10)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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